Community Profiles

Individual Profile:

Yvonne Frindle

Australia

(Arts Administrator)

Lovemarks:
Rotring, Moleskine, REMO General Store, Helvetica.

Comments:

• Breaking the first rule of good design

  Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

  08 September 2005

  What's this American obsession with the combination of peanut butter and chocolate? I love each of them separately, but the combination of textures (breaking the first rule of good design in that the textures are neither the same nor sufficiently contrasting) and the clash of the chocolate fats with the oiliness of pure peanut butter is just too much for me. Peanut butter and honey on toast, on the other hand...heaven!

• I feel certain mine will last for ever

  Rotring

  08 September 2005

  I love all Rotring pens, but especially the Rotring 600. With its characteristic hexagonal cross-section, and milled grip, it brings back fond memories of learning woodwork with my dad. It's fantastically solid, has a nice heft and is superbly crafted. I feel certain mine will last for ever. In fact it had better last forever, since Rotring in its wisdom has at last decided to discontinue this distinctive and irrisistible model from its line.